WEEK 1 - Online

[al2955]

the pygmalion. . . ONLINE CAPTAIN'S LOG: WEEK (1)

monday (41) survivors It had been three days since you had awoken. The ship was still quiet, except for the low hums of enigmatic machines with no apparent purpose. You awake, like usual, to dim lighting and poor rations. Perhaps being on the ship had grown monotonous — it was, perhaps, amazing how little anything seemed to happen in space, a final frontier of malaise. That monotony is crushed by a voice echoing through the narrow hallways. Reformatting . . . Reformatting . . . Reformatting complete. The Pygmalion is online. Welcome, travelers. Please assemble in the meeting room. Your presence is mandatory. Silence falls once again. A minute or so passes, and the lights around the ship finally brighten, the walls looking more alive and more unfamiliar — as if you must relearn the ship's interior once again. The robots on deck begin to make rounds, nudging and pushing at the ship's passengers to make their way to the meeting room. You hear the doors behind you lock. It seems there is only one path to take. ENTER COMMAND_

Comments

[bloodbiter]

[raising an eyebrow]

Having knowledge of weaponry doesn't make one a killer.

[thatbites]

No offense, [said in the tone of someone meaning every offense.] but only a few of you guys look like you could be Navy SEALs. Just saying. It's not like these are normal things to know.

[bloodbiter]

I don't know what a navy seal is. It may not be normal in your home, but consider that it seems most of us come from very different places.

[thatbites]

Yeah, and that makes toting around a sword normal? I'm more inclined to believe the aliens.

[bloodbiter]

Your experiences do not dictate what is normal for everyone any more than mine do.

[thatbites]

[Is she going to have to award a second 'pedantic' title to someone so soon?]

I don't care? And, honestly, I don't want to know where int he world a bus worth of people with weapons able and armed to kill each other is a normal thing.

[bloodbiter]

I am not able to kill anyone here. That sort of act is morally abhorrent and I will not carry it out under any circumstances.